New York sources reported that US Senator Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, has directly confronted critics who questioned her black heritage, her record of incarcerating minorities as a prosecutor and her decision to marry a white man. Meanwhile in an interview with New York based The Breakfast Club radio, the show’s hosts asked the California Democrat to address a series of derogatory memes that have circulated on social media.
Furthermore Harris responded “So I was born in Oakland, and raised in the US except for the years that I was in high school in Montreal, Canada and look, this is the same thing they did to Barack (Obama). This is not new to us and so I think that we know what they are trying to do”.
Harris said one of the hosts followed up by asking Harris how she responds to people who question “the legitimacy of your blackness”. She added “She thinks they don’t understand who black people are, and she is not going to spend her time trying to educate people about who black people are and she is black, and is proud of being black… she was born black and will die black, and not going to make excuses for anybody because they don’t understand”.
